Sentence examples for overrun its from inspiring English sources

Both fleets sailed along each other until Linhares, thanks to the superior number of galleys that he had, gained the windward and was able to move towards the French line, attempting to overrun its line to catch it between two fires.

Every Games since 1960 has overrun its budget.

But there have been longstanding fears that the ceremony would overrun its appointed finishing time of between midnight and 12.30am.

In late 2010 and early 2011, unusually heavy rains caused the Fitzroy to overrun its banks, and the city was almost completely inundated.

I don't think I have ever seen a picture in which this well-understood convention is allowed to overrun its traditional length by about 250%.

But even that position has started to wilt as Iraq's neighbors begin to worry publicly that untamed ethnic and religious conflicts in Iraq could overrun its borders.

Meanwhile, when the Mississippi overruns its banks again and it will the only flood coming to Valmeyer will be at the local cinema.

The most successful version of this is probably Germany's Wetten, Dass..?, which has been running for 22 years and wields such power that it regularly overruns its allotted running time by up to 45 minutes.

And if freedom overruns its authorized channels, they set about methodically to destroy it.

Worse, when the monsoon comes and the Mahanadi overruns its banks, the groundwater levels in Aaruha rise, making the contamination worse.

Surrounded by opposition fighters from several armed groups, its days long ago seemed numbered, although its occupants have fought fiercely to keep the rebels from overrunning its outer walls.